Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

We all have experienced things in life that have given us a sort of thick skin, or as some may say pain that has caused up to "put up a guard". Protecting ourselves is just part of our human nature, naturally no one wants to be hurt, and when we realize the things that hurt us we tend to stay away from them, or if we do go around the things that have made us hurt before, we go around them skeptically, sometimes with the intent to cause those things the pain that they may have caused us.

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

In life when we are able to accomplish high degrees of success, our human nature tends to try to push us into a mindset that many like to call pride. Pride is a false sense of confidence that may make one feel as if they are better than or greater than someone else because of who they are, where they have been, and what they have accomplished. People who continue to live in pride not only alienate themselves from others, they also lose touch with who they really are after a while.

When I look back on my life, I see pain, mistakes and heartache. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons, and pride in myself.

The person we see when we look in the mirror, the person we think of when we think of ourselves, is paramount because we will never be able to be more than we think we are. You can't allow things into your life that you dont think you deserve because most times you won't see them. When you really value yourself, you will also make great use of almost all of your time. It takes us being able to value our time to be able to really value our efforts and ourselves.

Too often we don't realize what we have until its gone. Too often we're too stubborn to say sorry I was wrong. Too often it seems we hurt the ones closest to our hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart.

Pride is one of the biggest reasons that some of the greatest people that the world has never seen remain just that, some of the greatest people that the world has never seen. Being in pride can easily limit a person's potential, and stops bad people from being good, and good people from being great. Never be too big to admit when you are, and moreover never be scared to admit when you are sorry.